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NASB | Mark 9:23 And Jesus said to him, "'If You can?' All things are possible to him who believes." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 9:23 Jesus said to him, "[You say to Me,] 'If You can?' All things are possible for the one who believes and trusts [in Me]!" |
Subject: What did Jesus mean by this |
Bible Note: Good morning to all----Thanks for such a quick response and I must be honest that my asking this question is to try to understand where everyone is in their thinking about some of this that we read in the Bible that is difficult to grasp in light of all that comes against us in this fast food spiritual economy we live in.. I probably ought to ask the question again but this time bring to our rememberances where are to be living spiritually for effective faith be made real. Not that we aren't to have a faith of our own but, as I stated elseware, where do we let our faith end and the faith of Jesus Christ begin in our lives? If we say we surrender all to Him then it only makes sense that we are giving over everything of ourselves to the Master for His good pleasure and for His purposes of promoting Himself, through our obedience to Him, to the rest of the world. We, by our faith believing in Him, place ourselves on His 'wheel'. This is a sacrificial act on our part, 'Shall the clay then say to the potter, 'hey, what are you doing'? No, I believe the scriptures are quite clear in saying OUR faith should be alive to Him [because of hearing His word, Rom. 10.17] that His faith, now made alive in me, even as the size of a grain of mustard seed, would be sufficient for all the power we need of Him in THIS life. It is His FAITH we now live by when we take into ourselves the new nature He gives us, i.e., Himself, and not just His Faith. My faith, brought into existance in my OLD nature, takes me to Him who enters me with HIS nature/Himself. One of the two natures MUST decrease. It shouldn't His. John the baptist, who typifies this, said in Jn.3.30 "He must increase, but I must decrease". John, the old nature, Jesus, the new. John the old way of life, Jesus, the new way of living. One more thing to note in this: Jesus had the MIND of the Father at all times. So when He enters us with His nature He also brings the Mind of His Father with Him. Now when we read: Phil 5.5 "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus" we can see something very great has happened to us that needs to be sorted out in our thinking. That's why Paul says in Phil 2.12: "... work out your own salvation with fear and trembling"; salvation in this sense not pertaining to eternal life but a coming out of the world's way of doing business, even business for Him. We can not have an adulterated mixer of our mind and His mind in His affairs. I repeat, they are His affairs. There's more to say on this subject that will exite you to greater heights in Him if you can get a hold of this part of it. Good hunting in Him, Ken |